September 4, 2010
Busyhot is a small Gnome panel applet which displays CPU load and temperatures in real time – direct on your panel.
The applet has support for up to 8 cores with a simply click on the applet revealing per-CPU percentages.
...The first application to be purchasable in the Ubuntu 10.10 Software Centre has arrived – and as we speculated a few months back it’s Fluendo’s DVD playback application. The tool had been for sale in the Canonical store previously.
Owners of Sony Ericsson handsets (non-android, natch) who want to bring a little Ubuntu style to their mobile experience will -love- the following Ambiance theme designed specifically for that purpose.
Called ‘Ubuse’ (forgive the name, the author isn’t English) the theme was made by a reader of Polish Ubuntu site ‘...
Lubuntu will not become an official Ubuntu ‘spin’ this cycle, Julien Lavergne has confirmed on the Lubuntu mailing list.
Lubuntu had hoped to gain official status during the Lucid cycle before shifting its goal to Maverick.
So why hasn’t it gained the official stamp of Ubuntu? Lubuntu developer Julien states that the following reasons...
September 3, 2010
It seems like an eternity since we last mentioned Elementary & design demi-god Dan Rabbit’s ‘Dash’ file browser idea.
At the time Dash was both an exciting concept and a project that, unlike so many other great ideas, actually moved from pixels on a .png into usable actuality!
Sadly the progress was relatively short lived and work soon dried up on Dash due, no...
Martin ‘DoctorMo’ Owens posted this very neat demonstration of a generative wallpaper, as proposed/wanted/sought out for Ubuntu 11.04 +.
In the video he shows how he set a .SVG image as his desktop background coupled with a small python script running in the background to manipulate and continually change aspects of the wallpaper.
The result is something visually pleasing to look at...
Installing an application from a .deb file in Ubuntu 10.10 has changed.
Sorta.
In previous editions of Ubuntu a dedicated tool for installation .deb files – called Gdebi – would open up after double-clicking on a .deb file. This window allowed you to read a provided description, see files included with the package and, most importantly, offer you an easy ‘one-click’ installation button to instigate the grunt.
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For the month of August the Amazon affiliate program gained the GNOME foundation ~$500, more than twice as much as the month before (at $231). The biggest reason for this sudden increase is the Amazon MP3 integration which is shipping in the current development version of Banshee which alone accounted for $175 being brought in for the Foundation.
It should be noted that till the 1.7.5 release...
If there’s one aspect of Gnome Shell that many users don’t like it’s the inability to switch between windows as quickly as that on a traditional desktop...
2010 has been a very important year for Joey and I and OMG! Ubuntu!About 4 months ago we decided it was time to formalise...